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Does the full moon on the 12th have any extra significance since it is the month of the Yule. If falling on the solstice make the full moon any more significant in Dec. Just curious?

I've felt this same way many times, and realized that I had no goals. Setting goals helps one to break out of just surviving and helps one to start living. I'm not even talking about large goals but small things like maybe taking the family to Florida or California to really enjoy Disney World in two years.

Well with that reasoning how could I resist. First I must test to see whether it be so that you follow the true path. Convert RobinD69 first and I will gladly follow thee to thy Celestial Nursery.

I will pray and send lots of love and healing energy little Harry's way.

Is anyone getting the same notion that I am, that sometimes it is quite acceptable to throw the baby out with the bath holy water

I think we all have our little fetishes which might seem perverted compared to what society deems as normal acceptable behavior in public. Most of us don't see the need to exhibit them in public. We're not clamoring for attention. When walking the streets of Baltimore, the least attention one brings to themselves the safer they are. A wise spy doesn't run around telling everyone their a spy, and a man with a growth on his tallywacker doesn't run around publicizing it either (unless it looks like Jesus or the Virgin Mary). Your Diaper fetish seems like an extension of your childhood ADD to me. You're certainly not a drone, but just because one doesn't climb to the rooftop and proclaim their fetishes to the world doesn't make them drones either. I think the whole diaper thing makes you feel special and thats the whole point of it. You can learn to feel just as special without them and wear what normal men do..grassskirts.

I believe as you Br. Arnold and have experienced God as such. What would you say to those who argue that an agape loving God would need to correct those who do err in order to show his love?

Sending positive energy and well wishes your way.

I pray for hunger to end in the world quite often. But why pick on just the 50 richest people in the world, when we pay enteratiners and sports figures exuberant amounts of cash to play games and act. Things we did as kids for free. They're offering one pitcher 140 million for 6 years to go out and play every 5th day. Membership in some golf courses is as much as $600,000 a year just to join to play golf etc etc etc. Just the money that women in the US pay for cosmetics and perfumes could send every kid to school on the planet. Some of those top 50 folks already do a lot for charity I'm sure. But there is a dilemma to think about if our prayers were to be answered and it twists my guts into knots. Lets say that God Almighty does hearken unto our requests and not one child or adult dies from starvation, what does that due to the population. I think I will add stipulations to my prayer on your request. I pray that God gives us all the awareness of the suffering of others due to starvation and the wisdom to implement a plan to secure abundant resources to fill their needs and the needs of all the others who will surely be added to the population.

I would think it would be quite possible for someone to be scared to death if they had a weak heart. The most scared I have ever been while viewing a movie was watching Vincent Price's "Tales of Terror/Twice told Tales" I was a teen and the one in which they hypnotized the man on his death bed at the moment of death scarred the bejesus out of me. It was late at night and I was so tensed up I went down into the basement to rock out the tension in my favorite rocking chair. One quick look into the pitch blackness of the back of the basement and I'm surprised I didn't have any bowel movements as I haul assed up into my room and dove under the blankets. I'm normally not such a scaredy cat except when girl scouts come knocking on my door to sell there cookies at midnight lol

All roads lead to Rome, don't they?

So then James the Just and the Judean bunch were "accursed" in your eyes because they deviated from what Paul and John taught. The one man who Yeshua said to go to in case of a debate is accursed because John taught circumcision and that following Mosaic Law were necessary?

In my first nervous encounter with the folks of Wicca, many years ago as a die hard Pentecostal Holy Roller I let myself get talked into participating in a seed planting ceremony. Tobacco played a role in that ceremony and I remember it being used at another event as well. Is there something special about tobacco and its use in ceremony?

One of many things I learned in my brief stint as a Wiccan student that I liked very much and still practice is the waning and waxing moon each month. I try to start good habits on the new moon and rid myself of bad habits starting at the full moon. The symbolism of the moon is a great reminder oft times for me. I can understand where from your perspetive giving up things which you enjoy may seem a great sacrifice, but from a person such as myself who despises smoking as a filthy bad habit it is perceived as a great gain for you. This is also why I don't understand how Christians perceive the death of Yeshua as a sacrifice of any kind. From their vantage point not knowing the glory and splendor which awaits them upon the other side I could understand, but many a mystic would consider this life dung, and an eternal being who cannot die would surely not see relinguishing this brief focus in consciouness as a sacrifice IMHO. I guess the sacrifice comes in giving up the thought patterns in which you focus to satisfy perceived needs.

I wonder why you would consider this sacrifice. I doubt if a snake considers it sacrifice when shedding its old skin for the new or that you consider it sacrifice when losing millions of dead skin cells everyday.

Yes congratulations!

Congratulations for having the courage to leave the herd and seek a path that resonates with your whole being!!!! It is not for those of herd mentality

I will definitely pray for Meg!

:clap2: and a pinch for one more

Ok this is a little bit off the wall, but what purpose would one have for reciting the groonkydoodle chant/spell. It is almost impossible to find on-line and it does seem as if everytime it is recited things go haywire. Is anyone familar with it and know a link where I can read it. Its been ages since I saw it anywhere.

Wow some very insightfull and thought provoking answers! My brain is in fog mode at the moment so I'll have to return and reread through it this weekend to make any intelligent comments.

Nice prayer but isn't anger a good thing sometimes?

Thanks for taking the time to respond. The more we share across belief systems I feel the more tolerance and compassion we can have for others as some of our ignorance of some things is lifted. I was just pondering the reasons why some of the things on your magick list would be considered "sinful" by God according to mainstream Christianity and then I remembered that the coat that Moses created for his brother Aaron the highpriest contained the 12 gemstones and it also contained the Urim and the Thummim which were some type of divination tool. Hmm interesting and of course even the Apostles cast lots to decide who would replace Judas. I wonder why the Holy SPirit didn't answer this question for them and they had to resort to casting lots to get direction from God and the Holy Spirit. Sorry for bringing those up it's just the way my mind rambles sometimes looking for truth. I guess the only kind of divination type action I perform would be when I'm hiking and come to a fork and can't decide which way to go. I toss my walking stick in the air and whichever way it points is the way I travel.

Divination bothers me personally mainly because I don't want to know what is coming. I want to experience everything firsthand. I feel it is not what happens to us that matters, but rather how we respond to it is wherin our lessons lie and how we develope spiritually. Divination to me is like someone telling me how the movie ends. My trust in the Divine is pretty strong and no matter what comes my way I'm ready for it with the Divine right there for me. Needing to get a peak of whats to come seems to me to be a non-trusting state of mind. Life to me is like an amusement ride. Let go and let the Divine give me the ride of a lifetime. If a skeleton is going to pop out at me around the corner and I already know that it is going to happen it takes a lot of the fun out of that section of ride. I have never heard of "glamours" before sounds interesting. Does this abilty have to be a local event for you or can you project them across the globe?

Ok let me take a minute to get my snorkel and flippers on and lets delve!